Refelctive Essay #10 HERO

I would first like to start off saying that I absolutely loved this book! I could not stop reading when I finally got to the last ten chapters. I thought the plot line and characters were fantastically portrayed and if only I had super healing powers.
Thom's Coach tells him he can't play on the basketball team anymore because of the comment that was made about him from the opposite team of Thom being gay. I think that that situation is totally unacceptable. Discrimination against someone's sexual orientation, especially a teenager, is the worst thing an adult can do to someone's self-esteem. If I were in Thom's position I definitely would had tried to go to the school principle and plead that this action was not fair. My family already deals with discrimation from school coaches with my brother. He is an awesome baseball player and his team even voted him as captain, but because the coach is so young and better "friends" with some of the other players because of the coach's younger siblings that attend the same highschool, my brother never got to play his junior or senior year of highschool in baseball. My parents did not take that situation lightly and phone calls were made. I was very disappointed as well. As an adult, you would think they would know better.
Ruth is trying to tell Thom not to wait anymore for a perfect fantasy life that will probably never happen. His fantasies about Uberman being madly in love with him or his dad breaking down his defensive wall and hugging him in public are personal issues that will probably never be solved. In that case, Thom needs to grasp reality and start living a life that makes him happy without thinking of all of the disappointments and getting his hopes up. When I first started college I was definitely looking for a certain someone to make me happy. In that case, I had a behavior that I was not proud of that I guess tried to compensate for my unhappiness. When I finally found my boyfriend I realized that all I had to do was be the real me and stop trying to pretend I was someone I wasn't and stop trying to make things happen instead of letting things happen on their own. That is how I am in control of my happiness because I know that everything happens for a reason.
I think a moment to feel exceptional happens to most people. I do feel that some people, when they don't get certain achievements in life, tend to give up instead of trying a new way of things or just waiting a little longer for that moment. Moments like that we can't make happen. It takes time until people really notice that you have achieved something great. I know from experience. I have been waiting a long time to finally become recognized by my dance studio at home because I have always been at every recital to help and have offered to choreograph dances and for a while I wasn't getting anything. It wasn't until this year that I made a dance for a couple girls that people fell in love with at their summer recital. I just thought to myself "FINALLY!". After that, they have been asking me to choreograph a lot more for them and it makes me feel very accomplished.
I think that the "first perfect kiss" is achievable but not until its with the right person. Everyone has to experience a first kiss and sometimes its awkward and sometimes its great but you can still have a "first kiss" with a new boyfriend/girlfriend. Like Thom, I have a really big crush on Mark Wahlberg. I don't know why I have this crush I just fell in love with him after watching the Italian Job. I think we have crushes like this because we know that if we lives in an alternate universe where anything and everything is possible, we would want to be with those famous people. And it's not that we want to be with them because they are famous, it's because the characters that they portray sometimes may make us believe we understand the type of person they are so we feel that we would be able to connect with them. That is probably how Thom feels about Uberman.